Pencil-point protector



7 L. GINSBERG I PENCIL POINT PROTECTOR Filed Nov. 1, 1918 Patented oetfie, 1923. a e 1,436,?24

-UNITED"STATESPATENT erase Louis GINS-BERG, or ivrrnnnarorlrs, Mrnnnsore, I I PENCIL-POINT rnornoron;

i ,7 Application filed November 1, 151 8. S eriallIi o. 260 ,734 I To allwliom it may mm pencil point protector applied to a pencil, Be'it known that I, LOUIS GINsBERe, a showing the same arranged over the point citizen of Russia, residing'at Minneapolis, thereof. a 1n the county of Hennepin and State of In the drawings, wherein for the pur- 6 Minnesota, have invented certain new and pose of illustration is shown the preferred t useful Improvements in Pencil-Point Proembodiment of my invention, the/numeral tectors; and I do hereby declare the fol generically designates a pencil of the usual lowing to be a full, clear, and exact deconstruction and provided with a longituscription of the invention, such as will eIldinally extending writing element 6. sis

- 1o able others skilled inthe art to which it usual, in pencils, the forward end portion 65 appertains to make and use thesame. thereof is tapered to form a conical shaped 'My invention relates to improvements in member 7. I means for protecting pencil points. My invention comprises in part, a cylin- An important object of this invention is drical shaped member 8, which in manufac-v to provide a conical shaped member adaptture, may be of a stout paper, or light flex-vo ed to be arranged over the forward end por-, ible metal. The forward end portion of tion of a'pencil, to permit of the same to the cylindrical shaped member 8 is probe quickly placed overthe point of a pencil vided with longitudinally extending cut-out for protecting the same. portions 9, thus forming arms 10. Anjelas A further object of the invention is to tie band 11 is adapted to be encircled about provide a pencil point protector which may the forward end portionvof the arms 10 and be positioned to permit of the using of the is glued or otherwisesecured thereto. The pencil without the necessity of removing elastic band 11 serves to normally retain the pencil point protector from the pencil. the arms 10 (in contact with the lead 6 or A further object of the invention is to the tapered portion 7 of the pencil. The 8 provide a pencil point protector comprising elastic band 11 is also adapted to function a member adaptedto encircle the forward as a gripping element adapted for use in end portion of a pencil and having an elas- Writing. As clearly shown in the drawings, tic band encircling the same for retaining the rear end portion 1 of the cylindrical the protector in contact with the pencil, shaped member 8 is provided with longisaid elastic band being also adapted to functudinally extending incisions 12, thus form tion as a gripping member to facilitate the ing partly severed transversely curved arms handling of the pencil. V 13. The arms 13 in being partly severed A further object of the invention is to are possessed of some degree of flexibility provide a pencil point protector, which is and are held in contact with the pencil by a W neat, cheap to manufacture and desirable second elastic band 14-. The elastic band in use. 7 14 serves to retain the device in the desired A. further object of the invention is to position on the pencil. provide a device of the character described In the use of my invention,'it will be ap-v whichby virtue of its extreme simplicity parent that when it is desired to protect and cheapness of manufacture may be the pencil point, the arms 10'are arranged profitably distributed for advertising-purover the point 6 by pushing; the conical poses and so forth. shapedmember 8 upwardly slightly. When Other objects and advantages of the init is desiredto expose the point 6 font-nit vention will. be apparent during the course ing, it is merely necessary to push thecon- WU of the following description. ical shaped member rearwardly and thus In the accompanying drawings forming expose the point 6. described, inwrita part of the specification, in which like ing with a penc1lhav1ng my improved pen- .numerals are employed to designate like .cil point protector arranged thereon, the 59 parts throughout the same, elastic band 11 serves as a very desirable 1 Figure 1 is a side elevation of a pencil gripping element. 1 g pointprotector applied to a pencil, showing While I have shown and described the I the same arranged rearwardly of the pencil preferred embodiment of my invention, it point, and V is understood that I may make such llllIlOI. Figure 2 is a similar view of my improved changes in arrangement and construction of 1 W 7 parts, as will remain within the spirit of the inventionand claim. 7

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is Q A sleeve to slide on a pencil, said sleeve being slitted longitudinally from one end and having an elastic band of less diameter scope of the appended 'than said sleeve disposed on and adapted to constrict the portion ofthe sleeve at said; end into protecting relation to the point of the pencil, said endportionbeing flexible to conform to the exterior shape of the pencil at said portion 'nnd'er urgency of the bandfand said bandserving as a grip when the sleeve is in exposing relation to the point. 

